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UNITED STATES HENRY HOWARD SESSIONS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE PULLMANS PALAcE OAR COMPANY, or SAME PL CE.

CURTAIN FOR SLEEPING-CAR BERTHS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 456,292, dated July 21, 1891.

Application filed October 13, 1890. Serial No. 367,889. tNo model.)

To all whom it nay concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY HOWARD SES- sIONS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, Illinois, have invented certain new and nsefulIm provementsin Curtains for Sleeping-Oar Berths, of which the following is a Specification.

My invention relates to a means for closing the space between the deck and the curtainrods used to support the curtains employed in sleeping-cars to inclose the berths.

The object of my inventionis to exclude drafts of air from the deck-windows, dust, and the light from the lamps, which, as "usually placed, are in about the plane of the upper berths, and also to secure greater privacy to In carrying out my invention I prefer to employ a flexible curtain or shade of cloth attached to a spring shade-roller, and to journal the roller just inside the. finish-rail, against which the outer edge of the upper berth abuts when not in use. The free margin of the curtain will be adapted for securement with the curtain-rods by meansof hooks or some other convenient fastening. These curtains are preferably made of half the length of' the berth, so that the occupant thereof may exclude the air or the rays of light from the lamp from one end of the berth. In use the curtain is readily drawn out andsccured to the curtain-rod, and when disengaged therefrom the spring will return it, winding it upon the roller, the whole being concealed during the day by the closing of the upper berth. here curtain-rods are supported upon arms adapted to swing or to be pushed back into the upper-berth space, the curtain or shade above described may have its free edge secured with the rod, so as to'be withdrawn into the berth-space therewith.

In the accompanying drawings, Fignrel is a broken perspective view of the interior of a sleeping-car, showing the upper berth lowered and the curtain drawn out and secured with a curtain-rod, which in the illustration is supported upon swinging arms so as to be swung into the berth-space. Fig. 2 is asimilar view showing a curtain of half the length of the berth drawn out and secured to the curtain-rod. Fig. 3 is a sectional view showing the berth made up, the curtain-rod folded into the berth-space, and the curtain wound upon its roller. Fig. 4 is a detail showing the outer end of the swinging arm in side elevation, with the curtain drawn-out and con- PATENT OEEIcE.

nected to the curtain-rod borneby said arm,

and Fig. 5 is a broken perspective of one corner of the curtain, showing a hook applied thereto for securing it to the rod.

In the drawings, A indicates thebracketarms upon which the curtain-rods B are socured, said arms-in the present instance be,

ing adapted to swing on their pivotal connection. with the berth-partitions, so as to be inclosed in the berth-space during the day.

0 represents the curtain, which in this instance is secured to a spring-roller D, jour naled in the partitions E or on the finish-rail F. The free margins of the'curtain may have the rod or bar G, and tothis rod may be ap-' plied hooks H. When the berth is lowered,

as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the curtain C may be drawn out and its hooks made to engage the curtain-rod, thereby inclosing the entire space heretofore left open between the upper ends of the usual curtains and the deck. v13y this means drafts of cold air, the rays of light from the lamps, and any dust which may be brought in by the air-currents through the deck-windows are effectually excluded, and it is also made impossible for the occupant of one upper berthto look in upon a person 0ccupyiug the adjoining upper berthsJ I do not of course limit my invention to the precise details of construction herein pointed out, as the same may be varied without departing from the spirit of my invention.

I claim I 1. In a sleeping-car having hinged upper berths, curtain-rods adapted to support side curtains, an overhead curtain having one margin thereof securedwithin the upperberth space and adapted to be extended and have its opposite margin secured with the curtain-rod, whereby to inclose a space between the deck and the side curtains, subto inclose a portion or all of the space hestantiztlly as described. tween the deck and the usual curtains, sub- 2. In sleeping-cars, the combinationgvitb a stantiaily as described. curtain-rod, of a curtain secured to a spring- HENRY HO\VARD SESSIONS. 5 roller and said roller journaled in the berth Witnesses:

partitions or brackets behind the finish-rail, FREDERICK G. GOODWIN,

and the curtain being adapted to be extended N. M. BOND. 

